Anka Prizmic-Sege
was born in Vela Luka on the island of Korcula in 1921. After secondary
school she graduated from the school of dental medicine in Zagreb
and worked as a dentist in Split until her retirement in 1976. Since
her childhood she showed an aspiration to artistic expression and
she began early to deal with sculpture and painting. She often visited
the studios of famous sculptors and painters in Split and she talked
to them, observed and learned. She started to expose her work on
common and autonomous exhibitions in 1960. Beside her responsible
profession, she constantly created art in her free time, and she
organized and opened in her birth house in Vela Luka an own gallery
in 1983, where she exhibited numerous works: relief, sculptures,
drawings and paintings. Anka Prizmic lives and works in Split but
a few months in the year (from May to October) she lives in Vela
Luka and untiringly paints, carves and sculptures. She is occupies
herself with numerous different subjects: portrait, landscape, still-life,
religious themes, war distress and human pain. She involves a part
of herself in everything she does, her love for human beings and
her native town, the painful experience of the distress of the Croatian
nation during World War 2nd and the recent Homeland war, and she
shapes these themes through suffering and the crucifixion. She expresses
herself in painting with strong colors and an expressionism approach,
and in her sculptures the statues are in simplified forms, without
unimportant details and they cause a strong impression. Her relief
groups with their expressionism power involve the observers in the
essence of the drama that is happening here and they join her on
this way through suffering and hope. The sculptors Ivan Mestrovic,
Frano Krsinic and Ivan Mirkovic praised her work.

The
works of Anka Prizmic can be found in Vela Luka in:Pieta (bronze) - garden of the Chapel of the Maiden of HealthBust sculpture of Don Ivan Oreb (bronze) - the Chapel of
the Maiden of HealthWay of the Cross - 15 stations (relief) - Parish Church of
St. Joseph

In
Supetar on island of Brac:Way of the Cross (relief-bronze) - Parish Church